Famed artist Beeple’s newest spectacle, “Regular Animals,” has billionaire-tech-titan robot dogs pooping out NFTs, stopping bougie fairgoers at Art Basel dead in their tracks with horror.
The animatronic canines sport nightmarishly hyper-realistic masks of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg — plus famed artists Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and two Beeple look-alikes — all crafted by famed mask-maker Landon Meier.
Zuckerberg’s look like the Metaverse, and Musk’s are a black and white robot take. Picasso is cubist and Warhol is pop art. Bezos’ robot is the only one that doesn’t poop art, but Beeple felt he needed to be there because Bezos helps shape how we see the world.
Beeple explained his art, saying: “It used to be that we saw the world interpreted through the eyes of artists, but now Mark Zuckerberg and Elon, in particular, control a huge amount of how we see the world. We see the world through their eyes because they control these very powerful algorithms that decide what we see. And so we wanted to kind of play with that idea.”
Every robot has been bought for $100K.
